Butön Rinchen Drup

Butön Rinchen Drup (Tib. བུ་སྟོན་རིན་ཆེན་གྲུབ་, Wyl. bu ston rin chen grub) (1290-1364) — a great scholar of the Sarma tradition who compiled the Tibetan Buddhist canon (Kangyur). His lineage is called Shalupa after the name of the place where he mostly resided, Shalu Monastery, near Shigatsé in Central Tibet. His personal writings include a celebrated history of Buddhism (Tib. བུ་སྟོན་ཆོས་ཆོས་བྱུང་, Wyl. bu ston chos byung).

Further Reading

Bu sTon, History of Buddhism in India and Tibet, translated by E. Obermiller, Sri Satguru, 1932